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Weather warm and bright and river low. Chub up to about 2lb trotting. "Other" were dace. Very little interest in a static bait apart from 2 very small barbel about half a pound each. A pleasant day, though.

2 Barbel, 8 Chub, 20 Other

River low and gin clear barbel bites hard to come by in the feeder so trotted for chub in the swim above the island.... what an afternoon.... beautiful conditions, catching chub on the float!

20 Chub

A beautiful day on a beautiful stretch of river. It's not so lovely for wading however, with an exceptionally slippery coating of algae on the rocks. Studs are absolutely essential.
All fish taken on nymphs with all of the trout caught from the same section of the beat. Grayling about 10 inches, best trout was 14 inches.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

One hooked and lost in The Stones in the morning before the sun started to properly have an effect . Didn't see any fish after around 11.30.

After a really gruelling day on Saturday it was just the tonic to be on HL3 again . The weather was due to be hot and clear after the mist cleared and so I set up a float rod and after 30 minutes loose feeding had 6 chub in the first six casts ( mental fishing) !!!

Fished various croynes in the afternoon for another 7 chub. Other were 6 small chublets .

44 Chub, 6 Other

1 Grayling

Up early ,did the usual chores , then bimbled off to Hundred House beat of the Edw ,I was in two minds to drive on to Cregrina , as both are some of my favourite beats , but opted for the easier option , didn't fancy disco dancing on the bedrock up at Cregrina beat !!!!
River lowish, like most of them now , but there are some cracking deep pools here to work a weighted nymph through , and this morning was just right to be honest when I started at eight , cool , reading twelve degrees in my truck and initially overcast so good news !!!
Some good sport during the four hours I was there and feisty brownies on the two weight rod this morning !!! Fish ranging from five to ten inches , only two on the Parachute Greenwells this morning ,most on the olive tungsten nymph, ten did make it too the net also lots freeing themselves off the barbless hooks , ahhhhh no bother, still good sport !!
I did spot a mink on the bank of a deep pool, cheeky beggar didn't budge either !!! Gggrrrr !!River is looking tired and messy to be fair , lots of trees and mess in the river , shame really as it's a cracking beat , needs the habitat team going through and giving it a dam good tidy up !!!!
That said, a lovely four hours , lovely mooching back to the truck , and nice to have a well earned can of pop and a banana when I de kitted !!some rain in next week, may be able to squeeze another session in here before the Seasons end , or a few sessions up Claerwen possibly , spot on ,a nice chill out . . . . .

10 Trout

1 Grayling

Best barbel 8.5lb, best chub 5.5lb. Most productive time of day evening.

3 Barbel, 12 Chub

2 Trout